24 November 2007

If you use Wikipedia as often as I do, you'll certainly have noticed the Fundraising banner on every of their pages. I needed some time find a place where the Wikimedia Foundation actually says what it plans to use that money for.Here it is: Planned Spending Distribution 2007-2008

On their donation page, Wikimedia lists the following uses of donations:

$200 – We can make Wikipedia available in developing countries through DVDs, books and pamphlets.

$100 – We can pay for two Wikipedia Academy events in Africa.

$60 – We can send three students to our annual Wikimania conference.

$40 – We can deliver 100 million pageviews of free information!

The latter two points are covered in the above cited plan, the first two points are not. Perhaps I should ask them about that...